Punks: New & Selected Poems

Punks: New & Selected Poems
Title Punks: New & Selected Poems PDF eBook
Author John Keene
Publisher
Pages 234
Release 2021-12
Genre
ISBN 9781737277521

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A landmark collection of poetry by acclaimed fiction writer, translator, and MacArthur Fellow John Keene, PUNKS: NEW & SELECTED POEMS is a generous treasury in seven sections that spans decades and includes previously unpublished and brand new work. With depth and breadth, PUNKS weaves together historic narratives of loss, lust, and love. The many voices that emerge in these poems--from historic Black personalities, both familial and famous, to the poet's friends and lovers in gay bars and bedrooms--form a cast of characters capable of addressing desire, oppression, AIDS, and grief through sorrowful songs that "we sing as hard as we live." At home in countless poetic forms, PUNKS reconfirms John Keene as one of the most important voices in contemporary poetry. "John Keene's PUNKS is utterly brilliant. The range, vision, depth and humanity he brings to the page are as galactic as Banneker's astral wanderings, as crisp as the chordal cutting of a searching horn, as courageous and small as a nose wide open. Keene's masterfully inventive inquiry of self and history is queered, Blackened, and joyously thick with multitudes of voice and valence. Amen to this exploration!"--Tyehimba Jess Poetry. African & African American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies.

Counternarratives

Counternarratives
Title Counternarratives PDF eBook
Author John Keene
Publisher New Directions Publishing
Pages 257
Release 2016-05-17
Genre Fiction
ISBN 081122435X

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Now in paperback, a bewitching collection of stories and novellas that are “suspenseful, thought-provoking, mystical, and haunting” (Publishers Weekly) Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives draws upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, and interrogation transcripts to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. “An Outtake” chronicles an escaped slave’s take on liberty and the American Revolution; “The Strange History of Our Lady of the Sorrows” presents a bizarre series of events that unfold in Haiti and a nineteenth-century Kentucky convent; “The Aeronauts” soars between bustling Philadelphia, still-rustic Washington, and the theater of the U. S. Civil War; “Rivers” portrays a free Jim meeting up decades later with his former raftmate Huckleberry Finn; and in “Acrobatique,” the subject of a famous Edgar Degas painting talks back.

Cinder

Cinder
Title Cinder PDF eBook
Author Susan Stewart
Publisher Graywolf Press
Pages 233
Release 2017-02-07
Genre Poetry
ISBN 1555979580

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“One of the finest poets of the last fifty years.” —Salt to the Nth, like the truth of an ending unskeined across the crust of the white field. Though it happened only once, I am sending the thought of the thought continuing. To return to the field before the mowing. When a goldfinch swayed on a blue stem stalk, and the wind and the sun stirred the hay. —from “After the Mowing” Cinder: New and Selected Poems gathers for the first time poetry from across Susan Stewart’s thirty-five-year career, including many extraordinary new poems. From brief songs to longer meditative sequences, and always with formal innovation and exquisite precision, Stewart evokes the innocence of childhood, the endangered mysteries of the natural world, and deeply felt perceptions, both acute and shared. “Stewart explores our insatiable desire to remember and make meaning out of this remembering,” Ange Mlinko writes in The Nation. “Stewart’s elegiac bent has broadened, over time, from the personal lyric . . . to what might be called the cultural lyric. Fewer and fewer of her poems reference what she alone remembers; they are about what you and I remember.” Reading across this retrospective collection is a singular experience of seeing the unfolding development of one of the most ingenious and moving lyric writers in contemporary poetry.

A Forest on Many Stems

A Forest on Many Stems
Title A Forest on Many Stems PDF eBook
Author Laynie Browne
Publisher Nightboat Books
Pages 560
Release 2020-06-16
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 9781643620251

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The Poet's Novel provides a unique entrance to the prose and poetry of many remarkable modern and contemporary poets including: Etel Adnan, Renee Gladman, Langston Hughes, Kevin Killian, Alice Notley, Leslie Scalapino, Jack Spicer, and Jean Toomer, whose approaches to the novel defy conventions of plot, character, setting and action. The contributors, all poets in their own right like, Brian Blanchfield, Brandon Brown, Mónica de la Torre, Cedar Sigo, and C.D. Wright bring a variety of insights, approaches, and writing styles to the subject with creative and often surprising results.

Of Indigo and Saffron

Of Indigo and Saffron
Title Of Indigo and Saffron PDF eBook
Author Michael McClure
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 340
Release 2012-02
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0520272730

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"Michael McClure shares a place with the great William Blake, with the visionary Shelley, and with the passionate D.H. Lawrence."—Robert Creeley "Without McClure's roar there would have been no sixties."—Dennis Hopper "Michael McClure's poetry and prose is one of the more remarkable achievements in recent American literature."—Times Literary Supplement "McClure's poetry is a blob of protoplasmic energy."—Allen Ginsberg

DMZ Colony

DMZ Colony
Title DMZ Colony PDF eBook
Author Don Mee Choi
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2020
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9781940696966

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"A new book by Don Mee Choi that includes poems, prose, and images" --

Annotations

Annotations
Title Annotations PDF eBook
Author John Keene
Publisher New Directions Publishing
Pages 102
Release 1995
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780811213042

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"Genius--brilliant, polished and of considerable depth." --Ishmael Reed